I've never fished Kentucky Lake but have friends who go down on a regular basis. They mainly fish for redear/bluegill and love the lake. I plan on going later this summer for some quality redear action as I hear the lake houses some huge crackers.

Now to your idea, I simply don't think more regulations is the answer. From what I understand, Kentucky Lake isn't broken...it's a great fishery with huge populations of each species. As someone else mentioned, the weather is the biggest factor in whether crappie/bluegill etc, have a successful spawn. I do believe in having a limit of some sort, 25 fish a day is a good starting point IMO.

My dad and his buddies just got back from Sardis in Mississippi, and the fish down there have to be 12in. or bigger. They fished hard for five days and kept 250 fish or so, but there were 10 guys on the trip. Breaking those numbers down, that's only 25 keeper fish per man for the entire week. I think that sucks, so IMO, their fancy regulations aren't really helping the fish or the angler. I told dad they need to start going to Ky Lake, it's closer and there are plenty of big fish to be had. They did catch lots of 1.5 lb fish, with a big one weighing almost 3 lbs. But I wouldn't want to drive from Louisville to Sardis and only get to catch and keep 25 total fish for the entire trip.